WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The closure of the Yolo Causeway during a manhunt for a suspect believed to be armed with a high-powered rifle was the most viewed story on KCRA.com in 2012.

Jimmy Graves, 38, began his crime spree with shoplifting at a Walmart in West Sacramento at 5 a.m. Walmart security called police, but Graves eluded capture.

At roughly 6 a.m., Graves made his way to a machine shop on Harbor Boulevard, where he fired at employees arriving for work using a stolen, high-powered, Remington rifle -- a version of the weapon commonly used by police snipers and hunters. One bullet fired by Graves went through an employee's loose-fitting shirt, according to police.

Once again, Graves was able to escape -- this time by carjacking a Ford sedan from a man gassing up his car along West Capitol Street. The police began pursuit and a high-speed chase ensued.

At one point, during the chase, Graves managed to pin an officer inside a police vehicle by ramming the stolen Ford sedan into the patrol car.

Graves then stole a white pickup truck, which he would crash and ditch in the median of the Yolo Causeway. This caused police, out of concern that Graves was still carrying the high-powered rifle, to close the Yolo Causeway for nearly seven hours during a search for Graves.

Police would later discover, at the end of the manhunt, that Graves' stolen rifle ran out of ammo.

While police searched the area around the Yolo Causeway, Graves allegedly hot-wired a tractor and then hijacked a brown truck which he would abandon around noon.

Graves appeared to have disappeared.

At about 7 p.m., police surrounded the Ardenaire Apartments near Ethan Way. Graves would set fire to the apartment complex before police, fearing for the safety of firefighters, would shoot and kill him, ending the 13-hour manhunt.